Security

Partnerships

Untangle strengthens security suite with Malwarebytes partnership, looking to drive channel growth in 2019

December 20, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Untangle strengthens security suite with Malwarebytes partnership, looking to drive channel growth in 2019
Untangle recently announced their inaugural “Voice of the Channel” survey to determine the state and desires of their small business customers, as well as the priorities of their partners.

Cloud

Palo Alto Networks expands Google partnership to leverage Google Cloud AI capabilities

December 19, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Palo Alto Networks expands Google partnership to leverage Google Cloud AI capabilities
As part of the enhanced relationship with Google, Palo Alto Networks will now run their Application Framework and GlobalProtect cloud service in the Google Cloud, as they believe its analytics capabilities are the best fit for these applications.

Managed Services

Malwarebytes looks to continue expansion from remediation into endpoint protection with MSP push

December 19, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Malwarebytes looks to continue expansion from remediation into endpoint protection with MSP push
Malwarebytes announces a new partnership with Bask Technology, which both highlights their endpoint protection product, and is part of the company’s plan to significantly expand their presence in the SMB space going forward.

Internet of Things

Network performance management vendor Martello one of seven Canadian startups picked for BlackBerry L-SPARK Accelerator Program

December 13, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Network performance management vendor Martello one of seven Canadian startups picked for BlackBerry L-SPARK Accelerator Program
Martello will develop a solution for the BlackBerry QNX smart car environment that ensures network performance management will work well in the challenging environment of an automobile travelling at speed.

Security

Proofpoint adds new index identifying specific persons at most risk of attack to their Targeted Attack Protection solution

December 12, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Proofpoint adds new index identifying specific persons at most risk of attack to their Targeted Attack Protection solution
Being able to identify the people in an organization most likely to be attacked – who are often not the obvious C level execs – provides a compelling new value proposition that Proofpoint is highlighting as an industry-first.

Data Centre

Pivot3 bakes policy-based data-at-rest encryption into its HCI intelligence engine

December 11, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pivot3 bakes policy-based data-at-rest encryption into its HCI intelligence engine
Pivot3 enhances its security capabilities to provide the same native policy-based management for data at-rest that it has already been providing for performance and for data protection.

Security

eSentire adds new RAMP services to MDR portfolio to provide customers with more holistic protection strategy

December 5, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on eSentire adds new RAMP services to MDR portfolio to provide customers with more holistic protection strategy
eSentire has always offered consulting services, but will now offer them as part of a formalized and holistic strategy, that is integrated with the MDR for the first time.

Internet of Things

Pulse Secure adds Industrial IoT capabilities to Pulse Policy Secure

December 5, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pulse Secure adds Industrial IoT capabilities to Pulse Policy Secure
Pulse Secure’s NAC solution has addressed the IoT market before, but for the first time they have added functionality specifically designed for Industrial IoT environments.

Channel Programs

SOAR vendor Siemplify brings in Bradd Barmettler as first global channel chief to execute transition to partner-led model

November 26, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on SOAR vendor Siemplify brings in Bradd Barmettler as first global channel chief to execute transition to partner-led model
Barmettler’s planned initiatives include a major revamp of the Siemplify channel program. He also wants to build out a channel presence in Canada, where he has had success in the past at other companies.

Cloud

Fugue publicly launches Risk Manager automated SaaS offering at AWS

November 26, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Fugue publicly launches Risk Manager automated SaaS offering at AWS
A standalone SaaS product drawn from their Fugue Platform, Risk Manager is a cloud-native monitoring and compliance enforcement solution that establishes good baseline configuration in regulatory environments, monitors drift from them, and has the ability to use automated remediation to correct drift if the customer wants that.